Tropihypnus namsooa Stibick, 1968 SDI

Parekar, Harshad & Patwardhan, Amol, 2025, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamilies Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Negastriinae, Tetralobinae, and Thylacosterninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of India, Zootaxa 5679 (2), pp. 151-203 : 173-174

Tropihypnus namsooa Stibick, 1968 SDI

Tropihypnus namsooa Stibick, 1968: 178 (original description; published type locality: Namsoo, India); Mukhopadhyay & Chakraborty, 2003: 219 (catalogue; India: “ Sikkim ”); Cate, 2007: 167 (catalogue; “SD” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District); Schimmel & Tarnawski, 2008: 650 (catalogue; “ India: Sikkim, Namsoo”); Gupta et al., 2018: 501 (catalogue; “2C” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District).

Type Locality. India: Namsoo , Sikkim **.

Type Depository. Holotype, M (??); Allotype, F (??).

Distribution in India. Sikkim **.

General Distribution. India, Nepal ( Schimmel & Tarnawski 2008).

Remark. Although Stibick (1968: 180) stated that the types are housed in NHML, the specimens are not present in the collection (as confirmed by the type list shared by M. Barclay and M. Geiser). As the presence of this species in West Bengal requires confirmation, this locality is not included here.